Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

Random musings on whatever catches my attention that day

David F

Torsk Tour

We toured the USS Torsk today. It's a submarine that was active in the Navy from 1944 to 1968 plus three more years as a trainer for the Naval Reserve. We were with our son Jason who was active duty in the Navy for six…

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David F

Oysters! Crab Cakes!

Rochester's food scene is OK but it's pretty weak in the seafood department. So I am always glad of a trip to Baltimore. We're here this week for my daughter's fiancée getting her Nurse's Pin. Yay, Kat! But of course I have simply got to check out…

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David F

Geekery

My daughter Nechama is quite the geek. Sitting with her and a few of her friends, they good-naturedly started quizzing me the way they get quizzed by guys accusing them of being "fake geeks". First I had to point out that I was only into…

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David F

Kottke on Writing

Stumbled across this footnote(!) to a Jason Kottke post about a famous copy editor: It's like he was looking directly at me while I was writing, and said, "oh, so that's what you're going for. Yeah, me too." In a footnote. Bloody hell. I have work to…

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David F

First, Ryan Endorses Trump

Then Ryan calls Trump a racist. OK, he has a point. But then Trump pulls out that blistering riposte... the one that starts, "I'm rubber, you're glue...." The problem I have is that this is raising the bar for what is unacceptably bonkers in our…

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